Tag: Syrian Opposition

News Outlets Urge Syria Rebels to Halt Abductions

News Outlets Urge Syria Rebels to Halt Abductions – ABC News.

If these news outlets took a serious look at the reports their journalists have been producing since the beginning of the Revolution they would know that there are two parties involved in kidnapping journalists in Syria: the regime and Al-Qaeda. They would also know that moderate rebels have consistently been involved in protecting journalists or trying to secure their release from their captors by offering prisoner exchange deals when the regime was involved, with the regime always rejecting such offers, or, on occasions, by attacking Al-Qaeda hideouts and securing the release of kidnapped journalists by force.

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U.S. Halts Aid Delivery To Syria’s North Following Islamist Gains

U.S. Halts Aid Delivery To Syria’s North Following Islamist Gains.

But the suspension, in addition to lost supplies, also sends a damning message about the FSA, said Ammar Abdulhamid, a veteran opposition activist — showing it as increasingly overshadowed by its Islamist rivals and unable to control the flow of new supplies across the border. “The Islamists are going to use this to tell the population: We are the only ones who matter now,” Abdulhamid said.

As Syrian Chemical-Weapons Attack Loomed, Missteps Doomed Civilians

As Syrian Chemical-Weapons Attack Loomed, Missteps Doomed Civilians – WSJ.com.

Brief History of A Major Fuckup, but not that anyone involved has shown any signs of remorse: the regime keeps killing with an even greater dose of impunity (albeit by other means), the opposition keeps faltering and fragmenting in a dizzying display of incompetence, and the Obama Administration is still leading events from the devil’s “behind,” or wherever the Hell they remain stuck – surely a cold and dark place reserved from the amoral bastards of history.